On 11/15/2024 2:48 PM, Don Moman VE6JY wrote:
The S meter extension available on many, maybe all of the ~1000 KIWI
remote receivers around the world would give you a faster and better
answer. I use it all the time to evaluate similar antenna levels.
http://rx.linkfanel.net/ No software needed, just connect in Chrome or
similar browser.
Hi Stan,
Yes, remote receivers will tell you whether you're louder or weaker, but
they won't tell you anything about phase relationships, because they
don't tell you what vertical angle is getting you there. :)
A method that MIGHT be useful is to do your switching, and with AGC off,
note which is louder for a lot of signals and paths, and compare that
with your years of experience.
I've used the RBN to compare two antennas on 160M and gotten VERY good
data by averaging a LOT of data over multiple nights of disciplined CQs,
using my own call for one antenna, the club's call for the other. W6GJB
did the same for two 80M antennas. In analyzing the data, plotted the
difference between the two antennas vs distance. One antenna was an
inverted V, the other a home brew vertical that we had designed together.
My situation was more complex, because one antenna was a Tee vertical,
the other was a vertical wire fed from the base with elevated radials,
sloping away from a 120 ft tower that acts as a reflector, so I analyzed
data not by distance, but by reports from specific stations. And to take
varying propagation into account, I did this for a half-dozen nights.
What my data told me was that the dense redwoods surrounding it were
subtracting about 9 dB from the 2-3 dB that NEC predicted for the
antenna. (The Tee vertical was about 200 ft away, and at the center of a
large clearing for the house and shack. A few months later, I got an
email from a ham retired from doing complex models for a major aircraft
mfr, using software that could model the trees. His model predicted that
amount of attenuation!
73, Jim K9YC
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